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METHOD OF PACKING GOODS.

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. No. 484',628. Patented 001;. 18, 1892.

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No. 484,628. Patented O0t. 18; 1892.

- UNITED S ATEs PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAMG- OI-IAPIN, OF'BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AssIeNoR TO THE THOMPSON a NORRIS ooMeANY, or SAME PLACE.

hMhETH OD OF PACKING Goons.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,628, dated October 18,1892.

" Application filed October 31.1891. Serial No.410,533- (No model.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. CHAPIN, of-

Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Methods of Packing Goods,

form the b ody of abox,intror1 uc ing the article or articles to be packed'within"it while in this condition, bending or folding the material still further to complete the body of the box, and inserting at any suitable time in the process of making the body of the box cross-pieces, and, if necessary, cross-pieces intermediate of the first-named cross-pieces.

Preferably the packing material will be pre liminarily creased by a machine or otherwise, so as to facilitate the bending or folding of it in the required manner. It will be advantageous to place the packing material after being partially bent in a holder to retain it in position while articles are placed within it and its cross-pieces are inserted in their places.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a-perspective view of a piece of packing ma-. terial partly bent or folded to form the body of a box, some. articles introduced therein, and a holder for retaining the partly-completed package. Fig. 2 is a perspective view I .have shown the strip of packing material A as longitudinally creased, so that it may be readily bent or folded transversely. It is represented as having four of such longitudinal' creases 1 2 3 4. g t

B designates a holder, here shown as consisting of a base-piece I), having uprights or posts 12', fixed'near one edge, and uprights or posts b adj ustably connected with the basepiece b. As here shown, the base-piece b is provided with dovetailed grooves 11 and the lower extremities of the uprights or posts 2) are fitted to slide along these grooves toward and from the uprights or posts I). The lower extremities of the posts are intended to bemade in the form of dovetailed tongues'or tenons fitting the grooves b and are combined with loose plates b ;'wliich are laid across the tops'of the grooves and are forked to embrace the uprights or posts 19 These plates can slide up and down the uprights or posts 12 Screws b passing through the plates 1) and engaging with holes in the lower extremities of the uprights or posts b fitting in the groovesb serve to clamp the plates 1) down upon the top of thebase-piece b and draw up the dovetailed lower extremities of the uprights or posts 17 against the overhanging walls of the grooves 12 To enable the screws to do this, itis of course necessary toprovide them with'shoulders bearing upon the tops of the plates b j usted t'o difierent-sized packages. Where the packing material is creased in the manner described, it will be advantageous only for acertain-sized box, and the holder will not need adjusting so long as a strip of packing material which is uniform in its size and the position of its creases is ,used; but the adjustability of the holder is advantageous, because it enables strips of packing material A of different proportions to be used for making different-sized boxes. Of course the holder will not require adjustment to suit packages of various lengths, but only for packages varying in transversesection.

To make a package in' accordance with my improvement, it is only necessary to cut from the strip of packing-material A a piece A, of a size suitable forthe desired length of package, and treat it as I will now explain. The

Obviously the holder B may be ad out piece A" will be bent or folded along its I crease 4, and again along the line of its crease 3, so as to bring it to the form of a trough. I Then it maybe slipped into the holder B, be- 5. twee n the uprights or postsbf and the uprightsor postsb Gross-pieces A may then be fitted to the trough-like portionas, fol. instance, by slipping them. in the grooves formed by the outwardly-extending corrugaio tions. The articles to be packed may then be slipped into the trough-like portion of the package, and where they are of less length than the, length of the body of the package formed of the piece A it will'beadvantageous :5 to introduce intermediate cross-pieces A.

These may he slipped into the corrugations of the piece A. After the packing has thus been completed the piece A will be folded along its crease 2 and then along its crease 1, and the edge beyond the latter slipped over the other. edge of the piece A, soasto form a lap. The package may then be removed and fastened in any suitable manner-as, for in stance, by tying a string around itor apply- 2 5 ing awrapper of paper and pasting the edges, or by simply slipping a rubber band or hands .over it. Obviously the inner sides of the uprights or posts b may be cut away, as indicated by the dotted line b, so that the said u prights or posts will contact with the lower part of the adjacent side of the piece A of packin g material, but yet willlallow the edge which islast folded overto be slipped down in front of them. H l j fThe cross-pieces may severally consist of a piece of corrugated paper or like substance faced on each side withRa piece of plain substance of like character fastened .to it by means of paste or other adhesive, substance, 0 but I am unwilling to be limited to any particular construction. i By my improvement I produce a very desirable package for small articles of merchandise, which canbe readily made. I When com pleted, it will be very strong, although light and cheap. It will be so elastic as to afford great protection to the articles contained in it, and its intermediatecross-pieceswill keep different-articles apart and protect them from contact with each other. Obviously the crosspieces may be made narrower than the depth Ofithe bodybf the package, so as to allow of articles passing between them and antopposite wall of the body of the package. It is also 5 5 apparent that the cross-pieces may be notched or perforated to accommodate articles:

I M improvement atfords great advantages 7 7/ over ready-made packages of the same material as that which I use, because it affords-opportunity for making-packages to suit differ- 6o ent-sized articles as the same maybe vended and to make up the packages to the best advantage for the protection of such articles What I claim as, my, invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is t 1. The method of packing articles of merchandise, consisting in taking a strip of elastic packing material, bending or folding t suitably to partially form the body of abox, introducingv the article .to be packed with n 1t, bending or folding the material'still further to complete'the body of thepbox, and inserting cross-pieces during theprocess of making the body-of the box, substantially as specified. 2. The method of packing articles of mer chandise, consisting in' taking a strip of elastic packingmaterial, bending or folding it I suitably to partially form'theb'ody of a box, introducing thearticle or articles to be packed within it,bendingorfolding the material st ll further to complete the bodyof the box', and.-' inserting in the process of making the-body of the box cross-pieces and jcross-piecesiutermediate of the first-named"cross-pieces, substantially as 'spccifiedtz. I 3. Themethod of packing'articlesofl merf chandise, consisting in taking astriptof elastic packing material, bending or folding it suitablyto partially form the body of-a'box, fitting it in a holder while thus bent'orfolded, 9o introducing the article orarticles to be packed within it while it remains in the holder,beuding or foldingithe material'still further to complete the body of thebox, and inserting, inthe process of makingthe body of the box, cross-pieces; and cross-piecesintermediate of the first-named cross-pieces;substantially as specified; a 4. The method of packing articles of merchandise, consisting in taking a strip of corirugated packing material, bending or folding it suitablyto partially forrnthe body of'a box, fitting itin a holder while thus bentor folded, introducing the article or articles to be packed while it remains in the holder, bending or folding thematerialstill further to complete the body of the box, and in the process of making the body of the box inserting cross-pieces into the corrugations of the material forming the body of substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the" presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM G. CHAPIN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. GHASPIN;

- Gaoul. BIEGLEB.

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